Obituary of Brenda Dugger Bell ~ 2007

Transcribed by Joan S Dunn

Source: Washington Daily News Aug 6 2007





Mrs. Brenda Dugger Bell, 48, a resident of 8865 N.C. Highway 99 North, the 
Pike Road community of Pantego, died Sunday August 5, 2007 at her home.  
A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday August 7, 2007 at Union 
Grove Church of Christ officiated by Scott Askew. Burial will follow in the 
Davis Cemetery. Edwin “Booger” Harris, Kevin O’Dell, Vernon Bell, Jay Bell, 
Curtis Campbell and Junior Hart will serve as pallbearers. Bryan Lee, 
Brandon Lee, Jeffery Allen, Mark Allen, Joseph Dugger and Christian Dugger 
will serve as honorary pallbearers. Mrs. Bell was born in Elizabethton, TN 
on April 26, 1959, daughter of the late William T. Dugger and Shirley 
Wagner Dugger, who survives. She was a 1977 graduate of Plymouth High 
School and married Jurden Braxton “J.B.” Bell, Jr., who survives, on 
August 5, 1997. Mrs. Bell was a homemaker who helped in day-to-day 
operations on the family farm and was a member of Union Grove Church of 
Christ. She loved going offshore fishing with her husband.  Mrs. Bell is 
survived by her husband, J.B., of the home; her mother, Shirley W. Dugger 
of Mountain City, TN; two daughters: Teresa Bell O’Dell of Fuquay-Varina 
and Sheila Bell of Pantego; two stepsons: Jay Bell, III and his wife Pammy 
and Vernon Bell and his wife Jennifer, all of Pantego; a sister, Sharon 
Lee of Durham; three brothers: Michael Dugger of Boone, Johnny Dugger of 
Mountain City, TN and Jimmy Dugger of Pantego; a maternal grandmother: 
Ruby Wagner of Butler, TN; three grandchildren: Tyler O’Dell, Kyle O’Dell 
and Kassidy O’Dell; four stepgrandchildren: Eric Bell, Casey Bell, Jessica 
Hubers and Jenna Williams and one great-grandchild.  
The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday August 6, 2007
at Paul Funeral Home of Belhaven and at other times at the home.  
Paul Funeral Home of Belhaven is serving the Bell family.



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